I am not sure which part of the graph below that Treasurer Joe Hockey does not understand.
Mr Hockey’s crusade against the former government and its Treasurer Wayne Swan on the issues of economic management, debt and deficit shows a disturbing lack of self-awareness. Mr Hockey doesn’t realise people are laughing at him like a down-and-out soothsayer procliaming “the end is nigh” each time he raises those issues. Indeed, it is a little embarrassing to see Mr Hockey discuss economic management without even the slightest understanding of the issues that make this one of the most extraordinary charts doing the rounds. The information in this chart is likely to fuel a library of Ph D theses as the smart economists around the world work out what went right in Australia and what went wrong in the other advanced economies.
